2018 Rd 17: Post Game whatever : Carlton vs Hawthorn

[PaulP]

Tagging is undervalued and a waste of time? but the bloke coaching the other team who is a multi premiership winning coach found it important enough to tag Cripps and send someone to belt him??

Think I'll stick with Clarkson and Roos ....We are clueless in the coaching box...Mitchell is the brownlow favourite and has been dominating, it was a no brainer.....

And Cripps' output was about normal, which proves my point. 30 disposals, 2 goals 1, 7 tackles. The tagger did little to quell his influence, and was effectively wasted. Even with their injuries, the Hawks could cover one man doing this job.

We have very limited resources. We can barely kick 80 points per game with 22 fit players and no taggers - how is playing 2 taggers going to help us ?

Whinging about tagging is one of the classic supporter lines. Through no fault of anyone of us, we are simply not privy to what happens in match committee meetings, in the coaches box etc. We can only react to simple scenarios - understandable but frustrating for all of us. Not playing a tag on Mitchell is part of a larger picture, which we don't know about.

When you have players kicking numerous set shots oof, when you have a team that are serial turnover merchants, when you have a team of kids and numpties struggling with zone defense, clearly Bolton has bigger problems than a tag.